411 PIGEON LITERATURE. 



Birmingham, and revised by Wm. Simpson, Jim., New York, 

 1879. 



A Japanese book, in six folio volumes, containing life-size 

 portraits of 150 pigeons, representing each bird on one page 

 facing the right, and on the accompanying page the left, 

 making in all 300 pictures, drawn and coloured by hand, was 

 recently offered to me by a bookseller on the Continent. After 

 seeing one of the volumes, I refused to purchase the work, as 

 the birds represented were merely common pigeons, differing 

 from each other only in colour, but not marked with any 

 degree of regularity. I have no doubt that similar works, 

 representing real fancy breeds, exist in China, Persia, 

 Turkestan, and India, but the difficulty is to get them. 



